Curt Siodmak quotes

“A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.”
-- Curt Siodmak

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“Weapons are created to be used. There's no place for the weak on this earth.”
-- Curt Siodmak

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“Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : Curt Siodmak (1997). “Wolf Man's Maker: Memoir of a Hollywood Writer”

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“A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.”
-- Curt Siodmak

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“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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“You Nazis! I pity the devil when you boys start arriving in bunches.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : "Fictional character: Frank Raymond". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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“You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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“People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : "Fictional character: Maria Sorenson". "Invisible Agent", www.imdb.com. 1942.

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“Don't worry about a sugar planter. Give him a horse and he'll ride to his own funeral.”
-- Curt Siodmak

Source : "Fictional character: Mrs. Rand". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.

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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.”

“A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.”

“I love a warm bath at the end of a day.”

“It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.”

“The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.”

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”

“The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.”

Source : Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press

“Eating highly seasoned food is unhealthful, because it stimulates too much, provokes the appetite too much, and often is indigestible.”

Source : Catharine Beecher (2013). “Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt-Book”, p.34, Courier Corporation